Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentiethcentury literature. N...

Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentieth-century literature....

The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand words. His shor...

Threatening skies over Guam took the Pacific by storm To my left, the spiral arms of Typhoon Jelawat spawn huge, embedded thunderstorms, monsters of black cloud and lightning with classic anvil tops towering nine miles above the normally placid Philippine Sea. The clouds...

The windows and doors were boarded. Outside, the typhoon was banging its fury like my drunken father locked out of the house. Inside, my brother and sisters joined me around a campfire of candles. The typhoon toppled an electrical post. It howled; it...

A strong typhoon blowing off the mountainous north of the Philippines forced authorities to close schools in the capital for the second straight day Thursday and disaster-response teams braced for possible floods and landslides.Typhoon Sepat _ the Malaysian word for a fresh water fish _...

Thousands of people in an area devastated by a powerful typhoon last week in the eastern Philippines were told to evacuate Saturday after another storm slammed into the central part of the country.Typhoon Utor, packing sustained winds of 75 miles per hour, made landfall in...

Essay provides a book review of the novel "The Typhoon" by Mark Joseph.